HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1983.11.02 - 11711November 3, 1983
Miscellaneous Resolution # 83313
BY: James E. Lanni, County Commissioner--District #11
IN RE: THE JAIL CONSENT JUDGMENT MONITOR'S RECOMMENDATION
TO ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE TO SUBMIT A JAIL DEPOPULATION
PLAN TO THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the United States District Court entered an order on
July 29, 1983, ordering that the County of Oakland and the Oakland
County Sheriff submit a jail depopulation plan to the Federal District
Court within sixty (60) days of the appointment of a consent judgment
monitor; and
WHEREAS the Federal District Court appointed a consent judgment
monitor on September 26, 1983; and
WHEREAS the consent judgment monitor's first report was submitted
to the Federal District Court on October 21, 1983; and
WHEREAS the initial report of the consent judgment monitor recom-
mends the establishment of a committee consisting of representatives
from the Oakland County Executive, the Oakland County Sheriff, the
Oakland County Circuit Court, and the Oakland County District Court
to establish a jail depopulation plan; and
WHEREAS the County of Oakland must submit a jail depopulation
plan to the Federal Court by November 24, 1983; and
WHEREAS it is recommended that the consent judgment monitor's
recommendation as to this committee's composition be modified to include
representatives from the Oakland County Board of Commissioners and the
Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney's office.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners hereby authorizes its Chairman to, in accordance with
the consent judgment monitor's recommendation, appoint a committee to
establish a jail depopulation plan, consisting of representatives from the
Oakland County Executive, Oakland County Sheriff, Oakland County
Circuit Court, Oakland County District Court, Oakland County Prosecuting
Attorney's office, and the Chairman of the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners' Jail Study Subcommittee (with the Vice Chairman of the
Jail Study Subcommittee as his alternate) to serve as the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners' representative.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners recognizes this committee as a viable means of complying
with the consent judgment entered in the matter of Anthony Yokley, et al
v Oakland County, et al in order to bring the Oakland County Jail
population within the limits established by that consent judgment.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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'James E. Lanni
Oakland County Commissioner
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOINc- RES()
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DanTel T. Murphy, cP.r.y
LEN
Counfy Clerk/Register of Deeds
#83313 November 3, 1983
Moved by Lanni supported by Calandra the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Pernick, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Calandro, Doyen, Foley, Fortino,
Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Page, Perinoff. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
i, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #83313 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on November 3, 1983
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
in Testimony Whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
3rd day of if ) November 19 83 this